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March  11, 2017 Week: 10 \ Day: 70
86004 Today: H 66° \ L0 27° Average Sky Cover: 5% 
Wind ave:   0mph\Gusts:  7mph Visibility: 10 mi
March Averages: 50°\23°
March Records: H: 73° (2007) L: -16 (1966)
Record High: 69°[1900]   Record Low: -5°[1948]
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❆❆Quote of the Day❆❆
Rose Kennedy
Prosperity tries the fortunate, adversity the great.
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❆❆Observances Today❆❆
Dream 2017 Day
Genealogy Day  Link 

International Fanny Pack Day Link  
National Urban Ballroom Dancing Day 
World Plumbing Day Link

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❆❆Observances This Week❆❆
3-15
National Days of Action Link
5-11

Celebrate Your Name Week
National Consumer Protection Week
National Dental Assistants Recognition Week Link
National Procrastination Week
National Schools Social Work Week Link
National Sleep Awareness Week
National Words Matter Week
Professional Pet Sitters Week
Read an E-Book Week Link  Link
Return The Borrowed Books Week
Save Your Vision Week
Teen Tech Week
6-12

Women in Construction Week Link
National School Breakfast Week
Women of Aviation Worldwide Week
7-13

No More Week Link
8-10

American Nurses Association Week
8-14

National Catholic Sisters Week  Link
10-12

World Rattlesnake Roundup
11-17

Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
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❆❆Today’s Significant US Historical Events❆❆
  Today’s Significant International Historical Events 
 1665 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
 1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
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1779 US Army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)

1789 Benjamin Banneker and Pierre Charles L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington, D.C.

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1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
1824 US War Dept creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs
 1845 The Flagstaff War: In New Zealand, Chiefs Hone Heke and Kawiti lead 700 Māoris to chop down the British flagpole and drive settlers out of the British colonial settlement of Kororareka because of breaches of the 1840 Treaty of Waitangi.
1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)

 1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice

1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
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 1917 British forces occupy Baghdad, the capital of Mesopotamia, after Turkish forces evacuated
 1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1918 Save the Redwoods League founded
1918 First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu in the US are reported at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1927 1st golden gloves tournament
 1941 FDR signs Lend-Lease Bill (lend money to Britain)
1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)

1958 American B-47 accidentally drops nuclear bomb 15,000 ft on a family home in Mars Bluff, South Carolina; creates crater 75 ft across, bomb without its nuclear capsule

1959 "Raisin in the Sun", 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"
 1986 1 million days since the foundation of Rome on April 21st, 753 BC
 1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
 1997 Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II

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 2006 Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as the first female president of Chile.
 2011 9.0 magnitude earthquake strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people and causing the second worst nuclear accident in history
 2013 European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
 2014 Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
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❆❆My Rambling Thoughts❆❆
Took off early-ish to get my vehicle a spring cleaning. Lots of people had the same idea and we were lined up way before the 10a opening. I was the 6th car and I waited 90 minutes. They were really busy. Not really complaining as they did a great job.

Then off for some shopping. Found everything on the list. Only spent $115. I am now really ready for spring. Our weather has us all getting the ol’ spring fever. Warm days, cool nights, and redently not a lot of wind.

Talked to my friend about his surgery. They placed a plate in is arm for a broken humerus. His scheduled surgery was 8:30pm on Tuesday. So that means no food/water after 8am Tuesday. There was an emergency surgery that night, so they didn’t operate until 11:30am Wednesday. He is fine but the surgery was cancelled so late all he got were ice chips until the procedure was over. Seems that there should have been a better plan. He may get out tomorrow.
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❆❆Today’s Trivia Hive❆❆
(answers at the end of post)
Where is CenturyLink Field?
Denver, Colorado
Dallas, Texas
San Diego, California
Seattle, Washington

 52.4% taking the internet quiz got it correct.
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❆❆Harper’s Index❆❆
2→Number of years by which an average US book reader outlives a nonreader

6→ Rank of the US among countries with the largest proportion of book readers

1→Of China
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❆❆ Joke For The Day❆❆
A kid asked his mother, “Mom, can you buy me those two toys that we had seen at the store the other day?”

His mother replied, “I will buy you one of them. One is enough to keep you busy at playtime.”

Later that day, the kid started doing his homework. The mother said, “Remember that you have two activities as homework today.”

The kid replied, “I will do one of them. One is enough to keep me busy at study time.”

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❆❆Yep, It Really Happened❆❆
A bank robber failed to get any money from a teller after a security guard realized that she was using a large water gun as her weapon, according to police in Texas.

Amarillo police said that they have arrested 31-year-old Lashondra Deniece Sandoval-Martin, after being accused of stealing a pickup truck and holding up National Bank.

According to the criminal complaint, Sandoval-Martin stole the pickup truck that a worker left running with the keys in the ignition, then drove it to the National Bank located. She walked into an area that is restricted to the public and pointed her water gun at a teller, demanding cash.

When a security guard walked into the room, Sandoval-Martin pointed the water gun at him. That is when the security realized that she was holding a large water gun.

He attempted to detain her, but she managed to break free and ran out of the bank.

Sandoval-Martin was later apprehended and charged with aggravated robbery and unauthorized use of a motor vehicle.

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❆❆Somewhat Useless Information❆❆
Dr. Julius Wagner Jauregg won a Nobel Prize for his cure for syphilis. He would treat it by giving the patient malaria. It's called fever therapy. The high body temperature caused by the malaria would kill the syphilis, then once it was gone, the doctor would administer the antidote for malaria.

Ivanhoe Reservoir needed to keep sunlight from turning its water carcinogenic. The problem comes when sunlight combines with chlorine and bromide, forming bromate. So the L.A. Department of Water covered its surface with balls. 400,000 black plastic balls effectively blocked sunlight from reaching the surface of the water.
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❆❆How our states were named❆❆
California
California existed in European literature way before Europeans settled the Western U.S. It wasn't a state filled with vineyards and movie stars, but an island in the West Indies filled with gold and women. The fictional paradise, first mentioned in the early 1500s by Spanish author Garci Ordóñez de Montalvo in his novel Las Sergas de Esplandián, is ruled by Queen Califia and “inhabited by black women, without a single man among them, [living in] the manner of Amazons.” The island is said to be “one of the wildest in the world on account of the bold and craggy rocks... everywhere abounds with gold and precious stones” and is home to griffins and other mythical beasts.
While there is some consensus that the area was named for the fictional island, scholars have also suggested that the name comes from the Catalan words calor (“hot”) and forn (“oven”) or from a Native America phrase, kali forno (“high hill”).
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❆❆Birthdays Today❆❆
@  indicates age at death
86- Rupert Murdoch, Australian media mogul (NY Post, News of the World, FOX-TV), born in Melbourne, Victoria
@85- Sir Fitzroy Maclean, Scottish diplomat soldier politician, author and an inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond, born in Cairo (D 1996)
@80- Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery) (D1899)
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@79- Harold Wilson, British Prime Minister (Labour: 1964-70, 1974-76), born in Huddersfield, England (d. 1995)
@79- Antonin Scalia, 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986-2016), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 2016)
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@69- Thomas Hastings, American architect (NY Public Library), born in NYC, New York
@64- Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership) (D 1990)
60-Shemp Howard, comedian (3 Stooges) (D 1955)
63- Gale Norton, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
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@54- Otto Friedrich Müller, Copenhagen, Danish Naturalist who was a pioneer in the study of microorganisms including bacteria, diatoms, and infusoria
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@49- Douglas Adams, English author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy), born in Cambridge, England (d. 2001)
48- Terrance Howard, Actor (Empire)
46- Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
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@27- Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (Star Trek), born in Leningrad, Soviet Union (d. 2016)
21- Chase Crawford, movie actor
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❆❆Historical Obits Today❆❆
@96-1955 Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer
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@80-1970 Erle Stanley Gardner, US writer (Perry Mason)
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@74-1987 [Wayne] Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State), heart attack
@73-1955 Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin), heart attack
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@69-2010 Merlin Olsen, American football player / Actor, mesothelioma  
@68-1957 Richard E. Byrd, American aviator and polar explorer (1st to reach both the North Pole and South Pole by air - disputed)
@67-1996 Vince Edwards, actor (Ben Casey), cancer
@64-2006 Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia (1991-97) and Yugoslavia (1997-2000), heart attack in prison
@63-1874 Charles Sumner, a white civil rights leader, heart attack
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❆❆Trivia Hive  Answers❆❆
Seattle, Washington
CenturyLink Field is designed with a 67,000 seat capacity! That means nearly 1 in every 10 people in Seattle can watch a live Seahawks game at the same time! The roof covers about 70% of the stadium which is great because it's Seattle and, you know, rain. The coolest part of CenturyLink Field is that, in addition to its naming rights for the stadium, CenturyLink also agreed to increase its support for local Seahawks charities. BOOM! Source: Seattle Seahawks Official Website
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Disclaimer: All opinions are mine…feel free to agree or disagree.
All ‘data’ info is from the internet sites and is usually checked with at least one other source, but I have learned that every site contains mistakes and sadly once the information is out there, many sites simply copy it and is therefore difficult to verify. Also for events occurring before the Gregorian calendar was adopted [1582] the dates may not be totally accurate.
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